John Scott
John Scott
ocean trying tourism
We've invested millions of dollars in tourism. Now they're trying to industrialize and pollute the ocean. It doesn't make any sense to me at all.
golf snow balls
You look out on the driving range and it looks like snow, but it isn't, it's covered in golf balls.
serious funding commit
When you commit a serious doping offence you are not eligible for lottery funding.
book way different
I don't see myself as experimenting in any conscious way, it's perhaps that certain books require different densities of language.
jobs would-be novel
I have a backlog of novels which I would love to be working on and would be working on if I were not obliged to hold down a full time job.
church moral these-days
These days - with the decline of the traditional churches - I'm concerned about where we obtain some form of moral direction.
fate reviews bookshops
The true experimenters are there but no-one hears about them - the critical/review system tends to concentrate on the handful of 'major' writers and their promising successors; bookshops tend not to sell them; publishers don't promote them. It's the same fate as has befallen poetry.
loyalty unique deceit
It seems we are capable of immense love and loyalty, and as capable of deceit and atrocity. It's probably this shocking ambivalence that makes us unique.
doubt misery decided
I always thought it better to allow myself to doubt before I decided, than to expose myself to the misery, after I had decided, of doubting whether I had decided rightly and justly.
dream real hands
I got to see first hand what he has done to make this a reality. That has been real rewarding to watch him achieve his dream.
ideas doors next
It's always better if you're next door. Ideas come up at the oddest times. They don't always come up in a conference call.
teenager responsibility people
People of this teenager's age are on the brink of adulthood and have to be allowed a greater degree of responsibility. A consequence of this is a decrease in parental responsibility. Therefore to have criminal responsibility for what you don't know about seems rather extreme.
appreciate done crosses
Until you see the cross as that which is done _by_ you, you will never appreciate that it is done _for_ you.
fate handful hears promising promote publishers sell system tends true writers
The true experimenters are there but no-one hears about them - the critical/review system tends to concentrate on the handful of 'major' writers and their promising successors; bookshops tend not to sell them; publishers don't promote them. It's the same fate as has befallen poetry.